• The White House has accused Hezbollah and Iran of being "partners in tyranny" after their role in the Syrian government's retaking of the strategic town of Qusair. White House spokesman Jay Carney said:
When the Power House stop concerning....doing some powerful act please, all the power in the House to stop this atrocity for sure! When the criminal tyranny and his partners afraid of the powerful concern?We remain very concerned, and we condemn in the strongest possible terms the Assad regime's assault on Qusair ... It is clear that the regime is unable to contest the opposition's control of a place like Qusair on their own, and that is why they are dependent on Hezbollah and Iran to do their work for them. The fact that a regime like Assad has its partners in tyranny here – Hezbollah and Iran – says a great deal about their intentions and the fact that Assad's principal concern has been his own grasp on power, not his own people – people that he's butchered.
